WASHINGTON (JTA) – In increasingly strident tones, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling his American friends that the purported moderation of Iran’s new president is a ploy aimed at relieving international pressure and …
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Ehud Olmert entered an Israeli prison to begin his 19-month sentence on a corruption conviction, becoming the first Israeli prime minister to serve jail time.
Prior to arriving at the prison in central Israel on the morning …
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RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Chani Lerner-Mor’s political activism began on a street corner here in 1993.
The landmark Oslo Accords, ceding parts of the West Bank to Yassir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, had been signed recently. …
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You probably all know about the hard situation in Israel right now, and I will try to tell you a little bit of what happens in my life during this time.
Friday, June 13, was my bachelorette party. In the middle of the party I noticed all my …
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Rocket sirens wailed across Israel as part of an annual nationwide preparedness drill.
The sirens on the morning of June 2 also were broadcast on television and radio. Civilians were told to head to their bomb shelters and …
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JTA – Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands Haim Divon nodded approvingly as he surveyed the small army of 50 men and women fighting for Israel.
Around a conference table in an office in the Amsterdam suburb of Buitenveldert, 30 volunteers …
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